This is a golden thread. This thread is going in the damn hall of fame, right between Sexy Wraith and that thread that one guy made where he talked shit about Meteor Goliath and insulted the game’s lead writer. I love this thread.

Y’know I just want to say how much I appreciate your patience with this dude. Even when we’re all starting to clearly poke fun at the guy, you’re still giving him answers as seriously as possible. Thanks for being awesome man, it always feels like a good moment, like a minor reward for having faith in you guys as my favorite dev team.

(and I know, you’re just looking at it like “well what if it were me asking the question, I’d want a serious answer no matter what”. You’re not thinking like “I’ve gotta do this cuz they expect me to” and that’s why I wanted to say thanks)

Even when we’re all starting to clearly poke fun at the guy, you’re still giving him answers as seriously as possible.

Hey I’m here you know

I’m just curious as to why there are so many religious themes in the game… One of my friends said that the game is satanic and I needed to dig into it to prove him wrong, that’s why I asked @SlabOMeat since he worked on the game and would know if this is true or not… I doubt Valve are satanic or anything like that, right? I mean if someone is to know that would certainly be @SlabOMeat

I think your friend is reading into things that are not there or using confirmation bias to try to prove his theory.

“God is dead” isn’t a Satanic belief or touchstone, it stems from Nietzsche the philosopher:

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

"God is Dead" (German: „Gott ist tot“ (help·info); also known as The Death of God) is a widely quoted statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It first appeared in Nietzsche's 1882 collection The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, also translated as "The Joyful Pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding") However, it is most famously associated with Nietzsche's classic work Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), which is most responsible for making the phrase popular. Al...